Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself?
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market value has been essentially flat at about $25 billion for the past decade while rivals such as Hitachi, Sony and NEC…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling network that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop producing 32-bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the last regular 32-bit…
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of VMware shelfware Summary Broadcom reported record Q3 FY2025 results, with $15.95 billion in revenue and $4.1 billion in net income, driven by strong…
Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers
Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers Summary A network engineer, anonymised as “Warren”, was pulled into a months-long dispute between a hospital and a storage vendor…
Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow
Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow Summary Fujitsu is facing criticism from parliamentarians after it continued to bid for and win UK…
Huawei’s battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK
Huawei’s battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK Summary Sources say Huawei will discontinue its battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the UK, with the withdrawal…
Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable
Summary President Donald Trump told senior executives from Silicon Valley that his administration will remove federal obstacles to connecting datacentres to the electricity grid and speed permitting for power infrastructure.…
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else Summary The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it will take an “active…
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons Summary The FCC, led by Chair Brendan Carr, has proposed ending two Biden-era expansions of the E-Rate programme…